“Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.”

“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”

“RésuméRazors pain you,Rivers are damp,Acids stain you,And drugs cause cramp.Guns aren't lawful,Nooses give,Gas smells awful.You might as well live.”

“They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.”

“You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”